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Well met!
Welcome to my journal! I update it sometimes. Read away!
Disclaimer:
This is often where I release pent up things so that I don't cause more damage outside. THE THINGS WRITTEN HERE MAY BE INACCURATE, so take everything with a large and potent grain of salt. The perspective will not be balanced, so do not take it as such. If you want to know ( Read more... ) -
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Listening to the sound of the wind whispering through the leaves this morning made me feel so calm an sleepy. I wish it were warm enough to open my windows already, and that my house was close enough to to trees to hear the leaves without also getting the highway sounds ( Read more... ) -
Ezotsuyu
Soon I'm going to have to give in and go get groceries despite the seemingly unending rain. I had thought one of the perks of living in Hokkaido was that we didn't get the rainy season... not true this year. It's been raining for a week and shows no sign of clearing up til the middle of next week, maybe, depending on whose forecast you're checking ( Read more... ) -
Pivot
Every so often I get this weird feeling in my body. It's happening now, and I finally thought of a way to describe it. It feels like the world is pivoting around a point that is somewhere in my head, like between my ears or a little inward from the base of my skull. My collar bone, shoulders and forehead feel it most, because these are the edges of ( Read more... ) -
Wants
I don't generally feel want strongly. There are transient, immediate wants, like cheddar cheese or to stop losing my gloves. But profound, life directing wants don't come very often. In the last 6 months I have wanted two things: to live in London, England at some point, and to go back to Iceland at some point. Neither came with a time frame or ( Read more... ) -
Retirement residence
Sitting in the back of my mind is an idea that I would like to build a retirement residence and then set up a non-profit to run it. The rents, because of being non-profit, would be as low as possible while still allowing for an emergency/rennovation fund. The place would be built completely new, so that wiring for medical devices and all our modern ( Read more... ) -
New Years meme
1. What did you do in 2013 that you'd never done before ( Read more... ) -
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On Sunday the light changed, becoming slanted and golden. Today the fields smelled like fallen leaves and dying clover. The local farmer let me traipse alone through the feathery asparagus, lush vines, gravel drive and scattered farm equipment to the tomato greenhouse, to pick my own. She handed me a basket and plump fruit to taste: red, orange, ( Read more... ) -
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I'm at a koto and dance recital today, watching my teacher's teacher and her other students. They just gave me a bento as a gift (the performers are paying for them, and I'm not good enough to perform yet). Small kindnesses like these happen to me often, and make me feel so welcome and valued. So, I resolve as of right now that I will live simply ( Read more... ) -
Something to ponder
It seems like everywhere I go, to some extent I'm objectified as a white, blonde, blue-eyed woman. Comes with the territory. But why am I more okay with the way I'm objectified here by some Japanese men and women, than I was and am with the way I was recently objectified by some African men (or recently African, of various skin colours) in Canada ( Read more... )